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Nitin Gadkari flags 5 lakh road accidents a year, says behaviour change key to saving livesIndia records almost five lakh road accident deaths yearly. Union Minister Nitin Gadkari highlighted that changing public behaviour and enf...
Lok Adalat 2025: Visiting court for traffic challan waiver? Here’s what to keep in mindLok Adalat 2025 Delhi: In India, vehicle owners can settle traffic challans at the National Lok Adalat on September 13, 2025. This event ad...
Mumbai-Pune Expressway sees drop in accidents thanks to traffic management systemThe Intelligent Traffic Management System (ITMS) on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway has significantly reduced accidents and fatalities, with 11 ...
Two-wheeler makers should provide helmets to vehicle buyers at a discount: Nitin GadkariUnion Minister Nitin Gadkari suggested that two-wheeler manufacturers should offer helmets to buyers at a discount or reasonable rate, give...
Watch Your Speed in Karnataka: New stricter speeding rules could send you to jailKarnataka has started registering FIRs against drivers exceeding 130 kmph due to high fatality rates. Effective from August 1, this rule ap...
No need for speed: Luxury cars' involvement in accidents spur worriesSpeeding luxury cars have caused several fatal accidents across India, highlighting the dangers of reckless driving. Recent incidents in Pu...
Delhi-Meerut highway accident: Stop the stupidity of 'road roulette'India, which has the world's highest number of road accidents, is still far from reaching its commitment to reduce fatalities by half by 20...
NGO to reconstruct Cyrus Mistry's accident to ascertain the cause of car crashAccording to sources, the preliminary post-mortem of Mistry and Jahangir Pandole, carried out at Mumbai's JJ Hospital, revealed polytrauma ...
Mandatory wearing of seat belt in rear seat could have saved Cyrus MistryThe 2017 GLC 220d 4MATIC comes with seven airbags overall. There are no front-facing airbags for rear passengers in the car and just curtai...
Mandatory wearing of seat belt in rear seat could have saved Cyrus MistryEven traffic officers rarely fine rear-seat passengers for not wearing seat belts. According to KK Kapila, President Emeritus of the Intern...
From 'moonwalk' to dressing up as 'Yamraj', traffic cops get creative to spread road safety awarenessSandeep Singh from Gurgaon traffic police dressed up as Yamraj, the Lord of Death in Hindu mythology, to send across a message against drin...
Around 3.75 lakh accidental deaths in India in 2020, over 35 pc in road crashes: NCRB dataIndia recorded 3,54,796 cases of road accidents during 2020 in which 1,33,201 people died and 3,35,201 were injured, the NCRB, which functi...
1.54 lakh people killed in road crashes in India in 2019, over-speeding reason in 60% cases: DataAccording to the statistics, 38 per cent victims of road accidents were riders of 'two-wheelers' followed by trucks or lorries, cars and bu...
Roads to be Audited to identify Black Spots, assess cause of accidents: Nitin GadkariRoad accidents in India claimed over 1.5 lakh lives in 2018, a recent report by the transport ministry revealed. India ranks 1st in the num...
Road accidents claimed over 1.5 lakh lives in 2018, over-speeding major killerIndia ranks 1st in the number of road accident deaths across the 199 countries reported in the World Road Statistics, 2018 followed by Chin...
Violators shell out Rs 1.41 crore in Haryana, Odisha post new Motor Vehicles ActA total of 4,080 challans have been issued in Odisha for violations of traffic laws with total collection of Rs 88.90 lakh.
Dark reality of Automobile & Highways growth in India by Ravi GaikwadCurrently India boast of 4th largest auto market and 3rd largest road networks in the world but this progress and growth has dark side as w...
Cameras on National Highways to catch speeding drivers: Nitin GadkariHe said a study of 2015 accidents showed that "owners of regular licences were involved in 79 per cent of about 5 lakh road accidents in wh...
NRSC member pitches for regulation of speed to reduce mishapsMore than half of the deaths in road accidents happen due to over-speeding of vehicles, a National Road Safety Council (NRSC) member said t...
Ministry dilutes penalties proposed in road safety billThe road transport ministry has watered down the penalties it had originally proposed in the Draft Road Transport and Safety Bill.